View Guitar Chords for Happy new year - chords ver. 1
my first posting, love this song but couldn't find it. so here it is, i think its pretty accurate. You gotta listen to the song to the song to get a good feel. I hate that when i copy this from one place to another the chords jump to different spots! whats up with that? 1 song, 1 page, everything in place - strive for it! Todd Snider - Happy New Year Capo on 5th fretChappy new year everyGbody there's an overweight man with an overweight woman on a sofa just watching TV hes Cyelling his opinion at the television she looks up from her food and agrees they got Dtwo bumper stickers on there pick up truck they keep the pick up parked outside Gone sticker says "what would jesus do?" the other bumper sticker says "powerG of pride" I was thumbing through the stations on my own television when i Ccome across a guy on the religious station singing &Dquot;somebody's coming" sounding whiter than me someGhow, wow, it took me back in time through dwindling joy to when CI was such a guilt ridden catholic boy, I'm Devangelical agnostic noGw CI don't know what we're doing here Dyou don't know what were doing here, G now Christians don't walk out on me just yet you know whose Cname im yelling as im clutching my chest the one my Ddad told me to and his told him to and I Gprobably pray as much or more than you do believe? shit, every word i sing but beClieving and knowing, those are two different things and if your Dtrying to change the way a strangers life will have to go I Gbelieve this is where i wanna stick to what i know which is Cnothing you know, nothing for sure so Djust chill til the next episode now Gback to the lecture at hand seems like my Cneighbor wants to kill what he cant understand I say we Dcant just kill what we don't understand but I Gturn on my tv and see that oh yes we can we can and we have since then dawn of man Cfor countless gods whose only real seeming plan was to Dsee to it that clinging to life was our fate and you Ggotta admit that life’s pretty great,C but D can we deny that its killing us? G i'll be here all weekC G C GhapCpy new year everybody happy birthday country joe I resolve to do like i Galways do I aint Dhurtin youGif life is anything its embarrassing a Crusty nail through a careless shoe you Dcan't help but sit around and wonder sometimes why there's Gnever anything the poor nail can do or think about how unfair it is that the Cshoe is only going where it has to too if you Dain't the dumb kid out running around you Gkindagotta do what your born to do hey C G Chappy Gnew year everybody specifically happy birthday to you Country Joe I C G D resolveG to do like I always do and I only ever make it a day or two